14 research outputs found
The spirit of family business: A comparative analysis of Anglo, Germanic and Nordic nations
Operations management teaching on European MBA programmes
A comprehensive review of the literature established that several investigations
have been made of operations management teaching in the USA, whereas almost
nothing has been published on European teaching. Therefore, an exploratory
investigation was made of operations management teaching on the MBA courses of
ten leading European business schools. The results show that course content is
similar across schools, but there are large variations on three dimensions: the
time allocated by schools to the subject; the balance between operations
strategy and tools and techniques in teaching; and the level of emphasis given
to service operations. The results also indicate the emerging importance of
integrating operations management with other subjects in the MBA curriculum and
the key challenge facing faculty - the need to raise the perceived importance of
operations management. The comparison of courses will be of interest to all
operations management faculty who teach core courses and particularly those who
are looking for ideas on how to re-design courses
Modelling Corporate Competitive Capabilities for SMEs in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: An Exploratory Study
This study empirically tests the relationship between the four factors of corporate competitive capabilities (CCC) (cost leadership, differentiation, innovative marketing and customer service) and business performance. The study specifically emphasises small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. The studyâs quantitative approach is based on the responses of 135 Malaysian manufacturing SMEs responded to a postal questionnaire. Empirical results from structural equation modelling (SEM) demonstrate an insignificant relationship between CCC and business performance
The Moderating Effects of Gender and Major on the Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Entrepreneurial Intention
Pesquisa, Ensino e PrĂĄtica de GestĂŁo de OperaçÔes: ConsonĂąncias e DivergĂȘncias entre TrĂȘs Mundos
Mentioning the Unmentioned: An Interactive Interview About the Informal Management Curriculum
Understanding the concept of the entrepreneurial university from the perspective of higher education models
Over the last few decades, globalization and ever-increasing demands of the knowledge-based economy have caused higher education in most countries around the world to undergo significant transformation. Notwithstanding the dramatic changes in higher education, it is clearly noticed that the influence of the European higher education models is still present despite the fact that the American model has then become dominant on higher education in Europe or even worldwide. The changes have been seen in the evolutionary roles of universities, which share the common trend from traditional missions of teaching and research to the third mission for economic development. Despite various viewpoints about the third mission, the common one concerns the entrepreneurial role of university for socio-economic development, underlying the concept of entrepreneurial university in which the collaboration between university and external stakeholders is emphasized. This paper is aimed to present a review of the taxonomy of the three European higher education models, namely the Humboldtian, Napoleonic, and Anglo-Saxon model, which is followed by a discussion on the emergence of the Anglo-American model of higher education. The paper then presents the third mission in relation to the roles of a university in developed countries, which is followed by the elaboration on the transformation from mode 1 to mode 2 in knowledge production, and a pathway toward entrepreneurial universities. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht